“I’m interested in constructing the material fact of the black gay body as subtext to the material content of the classroom,” (Alexander, 250).

“I’m homosexual, or dare I say it, ‘gay,’ third,” (Alexander, 252).

• In both Alexander and Brockenbrough’s pieces, they write about how identities of queer people of color get put in an order, and often times, it is sexuality and queerness put on the back-burner. Brockenbrough’s piece, talks about the ways in which Black college queer students at historically Black educational institutions often have to keep their queerness invisible. They “either remain in the closer or disclose their queerness discreetly, thus maintaining degrees of queer invisibility.” (Brockenbrough 37).